HAIRY CHRISTMAS!
Slade star Noddy Holder says drunk fans mistake him for Wizzard’s Roy Wood – and sing wrong Christmas song at him
ROCKER Noddy Holder says drunk fans often mistake him for Wizzard frontman Roy Wood — and sing the wrong Christmas song at him.
The Slade singer, who co-wrote Merry Christmas Everybody, says they confuse his song with Wood’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday.
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He said: “What’s funny is people come up to me in all the bars and all around and say, ‘Oh, I love your Christmas record’.
"And I say, ‘Oh good, I’m glad you like it’. Then they say, ‘Yeah, we always have it on every year, that Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day’. They think I did Woody’s song.”
Noddy, 74, earns about £500,000 a year from royalties from his 1973 festive fave.
But speaking to singer Robbie Williams and wife Ayda Field on their podcast, he says December is difficult for him.
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He explained: “The worst time is if I’m in a restaurant with my family or mates and they’re shouting it across the restaurant, you know, at the top of their voice. I’m trying to hide in a corner.
“Of course, somebody on their way to the bog, off the Christmas party, will pass my table.
"Then it swiftly gets round that I’m in. Then they all want it. They all want me to sing along with it around the table.
Slade – Merry Xmas Everybody
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